E3 Roundup: Holiday Shopping List Part 1
Modern Warfare 2
This was shown off first at the Microsoft press conference and it was on the show floor, basically its a lot like the first modern warfare plus snow, minus the call of duty name. In the demo you were playing Roach in the SAS under the command of Captain Soap, no word on Price in the sequel. It seems like more modern warfare goodness so if you enjoyed the original seems like a fairly good buy, if you complained about the length of the original expect to have the same complaint this time round because they’ve said that it’s going to be about the same length this time round but it seems to have the same level of intensity as the first so I’m really not too bothered about that.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
An amazing demo shown off at the Sony press conference and Nathan Drake is still awesome and it seems as Elena Fisher is going to be in this one as well, so potential for wonderful dialogue is clearly present. The shooting seems very similar to the original except it takes a couple less bullets to put someone down this time so that seems like a good improvement cause I really got tired of running out of ammo in that game. There seems to be a really nice amount of work that seems to have been done on the engine as they showed off you looking at a great looking cityscape, oh and helicopter fight.
Left 4 Dead 2
One of the surprising announcements of E3 and one that seems slightly odd given Valve’s continuing support for TF2 but it looks like left 4 dead, there are a couple of new weapons the only one that I’ve seen is a silenced SMG with incindiary bullets which just sets zombies on fire when you shoot them. Also new infected, like the charger whos a lot like the tank except faster and less health and the uncommon common which apparently are just zombies in outfits that make them immune to fire like hazmat suits. Four new survivors as well, but they are decidedly less interesting than the original four. Also the new location for the game which is the southern US states doesn’t look nearly as cool but I might feel different actually playing it. New improvements to the AI director which now allows a little more than just zombie placement but a bit of object placement as well, we’ll see how much flexibility it actually has when it’s released.